Traffic Generation Part 2 Article and Forum Marketing

Article Marketing and Forum Marketing

 You’ve probably heard about Article Marketing and Forum Marketing. In fact, you may even be sick of hearing about it. But are you doing it? The reason that you hear so much about these two marketing techniques is that they work!

Yes, article marketing and forum marketing builds traffic slowly. There are faster ways to get traffic. But, when you build traffic using these methods as well, you are also building your credibility. You are drawing responsive people to your site, and if your site is doing its job as well, and you get those people on your list, you can draw them back time and time again.

Note: If you are not collecting email addresses at your website, the traffic that you bring there is essentially wasted. By building an opt-in list, you can bring traffic back to your site over and over again, and this is essential to online businesses. Email addresses and first names should be collected with an opt-in page, or with subscribe boxes located on every single page of your website!

Now, let’s start generating some traffic with articles. The concept is that you write an article, which should be anywhere from 350 to 750 words in length. You include an author’s resource box at the bottom of your article, and your website link is included in that resource box. You submit the article to article directories and ezine publishers.

If you can’t write, you can get article written for less than $10 each by a ghostwriter. If you don’t have the time it takes to submit articles, you can hire a service to do that for you as well. It is essential that you do article marketing, because it is viral. Your articles will be used on other people’s websites, blogs, and in their ezines – spreading the word about your site.

Forum marketing is also important. To do forum marketing, you find good, well populated forums that relate to your niche. You simply participate in those forums, and include a signature file at the bottom of all of your posts, that lead people to your website. Forum marketing does not take much time at all, once you’ve found the forums that you want to participate in.

Again, these are slow, but effective (and free) ways to generate traffic. But no matter how slow they are, they are essential to your overall online business because of the virility of these techniques, and the credibility that it gives you.

Homework Assignment: Write and submit one article, each week. Participate in your niche forums on a daily basis, posting one message in each forum per day, using a signature file that brings people to your website.

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Jean DAndrea   Retired Good post, Dave! Have had intentions of doing articles for a long time, but to date have only managed to submit three to the directories. One of them was only submitted today, so don't know if it's been accepted or not yet. It's a very slow way of getting traffic, when you're as slow as I am in writing articles. Have you had much luck with this yourself, and how do you select a good article directory? Oct 20th 2007 03:43

Dave Thomas    Hi Jean, Firstly yes I am having good success with article marketing, to start with it can take a little time to get going but once you get into the routine it gets very easy, if I am honest in respect of creating articles I do create some 100% myself but I also use software for topics that I do not know so much about and some PLR which I do re-write to make it unique. As for how to choose an article directory I try to submit to the main ones such as go articles, article city ,article ezine etc there are thousands of article directories out there I try and use the most relevant ones to whatever market I am targeting. It is also important to spin your articles so that you are not submitting the same article to each directory If you want to find out what software I use - some of it is free then drop me a private message and I will give you links to my resources. Kind Regards Dave Oct 20th 2007 04:12

Femi   Nice post Dave it was a great read! I actually found your blog post from a keyword I typed in google, so that is just to let you know your post is receiving good search engine rankings, congrats! How can I private message you? I too would love to get those links. Cheers! Femi http://breakneckprofits.com Nov 9th 2007 12:54

Dave Thomas    Hi Femi I have added you to contact list once you approve you can send mail through the system Dave Nov 9th 2007 16:40

Jean DAndrea   Retired Thanks for your response Dave - haven't been around much the past few days because the offline life needed attention. Haven't written those articles yet, but will try and do at least one per week from now on. The directories I use currently (only two) were those I liked best after a Google search - as good as any way, I should think, except personal recommendation. I'll certainly have a look at those you mention. Thanks again Jean Nov 9th 2007 21:13